After THIS age life gets better, new study finds

If you thought that happiness was a youthful phenomenon or that satisfaction only came with success, you are (thankfully) wrong.

A new survey looked into the life satisfaction of people in 160 countries and found that anger begins to lessen at 45 and life's stresses begin to fall away at the age of 50. And by 54 any traces of middle-age crises are gone.

The survey found that those living in the UK, US, Canada and Australia were most prone to suffering from a mid-life crisis which researchers believe is due to higher levels of stress and worry, indy100.com reports.

Lowest life satisfaction seemed to fall between the ages of 45 and 54, where salaries are highest but with it, the pressure to work even with higher risk to wellbeing.

However the good news, if you live in any of the aforementioned countries, is that the high-income English speaking countries were unique in experiencing this second wind of life satisfaction – while the rest of the world saw a steady decline in happiness after middle age.

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